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Real Exchange Rates and the Earnings of Immigrants

Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin; Surovtseva, Tanya - 2021

Higher price levels in the destination relative to the origin increase the effective real wages of immigrants, thereby … affecting immigrants' reservation and entry wages as well as their subsequent career trajectories. Based on micro … (RER) between Germany and countries that newly joined the European Union in the 2000s, we find that immigrants arriving …

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Referral-based Job Search Networks

Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; Schönberg, Uta - 2011

This paper develops a model and derives novel testable implications of referral-based job search networks in which employees provide employers with information about potential job market candidates that they otherwise would not have. Using unique matched employeremployee data that cover the...

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Estimating Immigrant Earnings Profiles when Migrations are Temporary

Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016

The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...

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The Labour Market Impact of Immigration

Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; Frattini, Tommaso - 2008

In the first part of this paper, we present a stylised model of the labour market impact of immigration. We then discuss mechanisms through which an economy can adjust to immigration: changes in factor prices, output mix and production technology. In the second part, we explain the problems of...

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The Impact of Immigration: Why Do Studies Reach Such Different Results?

Dustmann, Christian; Schönberg, Uta; Stuhler, Jan - 2016

elasticities of natives and the downgrading of immigrants. We show that heterogeneous labor supply elasticities, if ignored, may …

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The Effect of Emigration from Poland on Polish Wages

Dustmann, Christian; Frattini, Tommaso; Rosso, Anna - 2012

This paper analyses the effect of emigration from Poland around the time of EU accession on the Polish labour market. We develop a simple model that guides our empirical specification and provides a clear interpretation for our estimates. Focussing on the 1998-2007 period for Poland, we use a...

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Parents and Children Talk: The Family Dynamics of English Language Proficiency

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2004

This paper extends the analysis of the acquisition of destination language proficiency among immigrants by explicitly … duration of residence, the higher the level of education, and for immigrants not from Asia. Large positive correlations in the …

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Parents and Children Talk: The Family Dynamics of English Language Proficiency

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W.; Lee, Yew Liang - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2004

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Are there gender and county of origin differences in immigrant labor market outcomes across European destinations?

Adserà, Alícia; Chiswick, Barry R. - In: Journal of population economics 20 (2007) 3, pp. 495-526

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Family matters : the role of the family in immigrants' destination language acquisition

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - In: Journal of population economics 18 (2005) 4, pp. 631-647

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